How to Wake the Constitution’s Sleeping Giant

Readers respond to our October 2025 cover story and more.
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Utah Republican lawmakers prepare Constitutional amendment over power of initiatives

Utah's Republican lawmakers are in the process of preparing a constitutional amendment to reverse a 2024 Supreme Court ruling ...
AOL

Republicans push reforms to constitutional amendment process

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Republican-controlled Missouri Legislature is set to deliver on a long-held GOP promise to make it harder to change the state constitution. In particular, a measure offered ...
Yahoo

Restrictions on constitutional amendment process clears the Florida Legislature

Anti-abortion and pro-abortion people rally outside of the Florida Supreme Court on Feb. 7, 2024, after the oral argument on the proposed amendment to enshrine abortion-rights in the Florida ...

Lawmakers advance four constitutional amendments early in 2026 session

Virginia lawmakers opened the 2026 General Assembly session Wednesday by advancing four proposed constitutional amendments ...
The Atlantic

How Originalism Killed the Constitution

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.
Northern Virginia Daily

Va. House Democrats advance four constitutional amendments on opening day of 2026 session

Virginia House Democrats wasted little time flexing their new majority on the opening day of the 2026 General Assembly, ...
Las Vegas Sun

Due process under fire: The constitutional guarantee and Trump’s deportation challenge

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. This ...
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Proposed constitutional amendment aims to protect Arkansas' ballot initiative process, organizers say

NEWS. A NEW PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT LOOKS TO CHANGE THE WAY ARKANSANS BRING ISSUES TO THE BALLOT. TODAY- THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS SUBMITTED A BALLOT TITLE THEY SAY ADDRESSES CONCERNS ...